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What Makes the Perfect Swimmer's Body? Although swimmers with a wide variety of body types have found success in the sport, most at the international level tend to look similar, sporting tall and muscular bodies - typically with long torsos, long arms and short legs. This begs the question: If you c...

USRPT: How This 'Unconventional' Training Works Every athlete trains differently, and no one training regimen is the same for every athlete. This fact is especially true in the world of swimming. Over the course of the swimming's history, training has evolved through advancements in technology and a...

The Top 15 U.S. Male Swimmers Before World Championship Trials It’s hard to believe it, but the U.S. Trials for this summer’s World Championships are already approaching quickly. While the top meet in the United States usually falls between mid-June and late July, this year’s meet will be held April...

Pre-World Championships Rankings: The 25 Best Male Swimmers in the World Right Now Since Michael Phelps walked away from swimming for good after the 2016 Olympics, one individual has held the title of "world's best male swimmer" for almost six years. Regular readers of this website will have no trou...

What If The NIL Rule Had Been Passed Earlier? Maybe Michael Phelps In a College Suit? The NCAA recently made an impactful change to its landscape. Passing the NIL, or Name, Image and Likeness rule, now allows student-athletes in the NCAA to profit off of their own brands, make deals with other brand...

Father-Son Reunion or Brief Respite? Michael Andrew Rejoins Father in Hawaii Beautiful waves crash the shore every day in Oahu, Hawaii, from sunrise to sunset. The water surges toward its breaking point, only to gently slow to relaxation. Even after a hard effort, the wave finds peace for itself, a ...

World Aquatics has reached a settlement with a group of swimmers who filed a class action lawsuit in 2023. Olympians Tom Shields, Michael Andrew and Katinka Hosszu sued World Aquatics, then known as FINA, for anti-competitive conduct in 2023, regarding swimmers competing in the International Swimmin...

Tom Shields Defends Michael Andrew After Maya DiRado Comments on Vaccine; Others Also Respond After 2016 U.S. Olympian Maya DiRado criticized 2021 team member and American-record holder Michael Andrew for not receiving a COVID-19 vaccine prior to the Olympics, Tom Shields responded on Twitter and cr...

Olympic Swimming Will Look Much Different With 50-Meter Events in 2028 The unexpected news will reverberate throughout the sport, with many swimmers surely adjusting their long-range training plans and even career plans. The 50-meter events of butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke are no longer sec...

Budapest 2024, Day 2 Prelims: Jordan Crooks Rattles 100 Free World Record Jordan Crooks rattled the 100 free world record in day two prelims at the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest. The Cayman Islands swimmer went joint-third all-time alongside Vlad Morozov in 44.95, a championship and A...

Team Triumph Swim Club, one of the fastest-growing competitive swim programs in the United States, is proud to announce that Olympic gold medalist and world champion Michael Andrew has joined its coaching staff. Based in Columbia, Missouri, the team is led by Head Coach Bobby Campbell, along with As...

Gretchen Walsh Blasts American Record in 50 Butterfly; Becomes Second Woman to Go Sub-25 With the Olympic Games featuring the 50-meter stroke events beginning at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the sprints will obviously take on enhanced importance around the world. That sense was in the air ...

By David Rieder. Nobody even came close. These were two 50-meter races, where margins of victory are far more often fingertips than bodylengths, and Michael Andrew won both by at least a half-second. Andrew bagged two gold medals on the fourth night of the World Junior Championships, first defending...

Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom found herself atop the podium once again, this time in the 100 Butterfly and Freestyle on day one of the FINA Champions Series in Indianapolis. The meet is a two-day competition featuring the world's top swimmers. In a post-race interview, Sjostrom explained the many benefits...

By Katie Wingert, Swimming World College Intern.  Jacob Molacek touched out Michael Andrew twice, and Liberty Howell celebrated another distance title on the third night of Speedo Sectionals in Columbia. The night started off with a strong swim by Greater Nebraska's Caroline Theil, who demolished he...

U.S. Nationals: Teenager Campbell McKean Clips Michael Andrew for Title in 50 Breaststroke Heading into the United States National Championships, there was much discussion about the potential of Campbell McKean. Out of the Bend Swim Club in Oregon, and bound for the University of Texas, McKean was t...

Which Michael is Changing the Sport: Phelps or Andrew? Commentary by Brent Rutemiller, CEO and Publisher of Swimming World Magazine.  Both Michaels are graced with incredible physiques. Michael Phelps stands at 6-4 with size 14 shoes and a wingspan of 6-7. Michael Andrew stands two inches taller at ...

Swimming World presents the video series, the Ross Report. It is a series where our head video producer Andy Ross will travel around the country to tell the stories of the athletes you don’t know much about. This week's episode focuses on 15-year-old Josh Zuchowski of the Flood Aquatics Swim Team .....

By Isabelle Robuck, College Swimming World Intern. Swimming is more than just staring at a black line on the bottom of the pool. While that is a good part of what we do, there's a lot more fun that happens as well. As popular challenges and trends that have taken the swimming world by storm, our com...

The 100 IM: Popular Age-Group Event Bringing Together The World's Best Ruta Meilutyte is a resurgent sprint breaststroke star who won Olympic gold at age 15 and another world title this year at age 25 after a long layoff. Summer McIntosh is one of the most electrifying young stars in global swimming...